CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1024 Family group:
Three: Private F. Ford, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 STAR (32762 Pte., R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (32762 Pte., R.A.M.C.)
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (1920224 A.C.1 G. Ford, R.A.F.) this last with slight edge bruise, good very fine and better (4)
£90-120 Believed to be father and son. Medal to G. Ford with named lid of card box of issue and a slip confirming Ford’s service at R.A.F. Station Tengah. 1025
Three: Serjeant A. Smith, Army Service Corps 1914-15 STAR (M2-098034 Pte., A.S.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (M2--98034 Sjt., A.S.C.)
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL PAIRS (2) (177917 Gnr. C. V. Perks, R.A.; 45640 Cpl. A. Nesbitt, M.G.C.) very fine and better (7)
£90-120 Pair to Perks with damaged named lid to card box of issue. 1026 Family group:
Three: Private F. Hammond, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 STAR (53793 Pte., R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (53793 Pte., R.A.M.C.)
Four: attributed to Fusilier C. F. Hammond, 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, killed/died, Tunisia, 9 May 1943 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 8th Army; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed, good very fine and better (7)
£90-120 Private Frederick Hammond, R.A.M.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 July 1915. With copied m.i.c.
His son, Fusilier Charles Frederick Hammond, 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, was killed/died in Tunisia on 9 May 1943, aged 21 years. He was buried in the Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia. He was the son of Frederick M. and Kate Hammond, of Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. With named condolence slip
1027
Three: Private E. Butler, Wiltshire Regiment, a Gallipoli veteran, killed in action in Mesopotamia in April 1916 1914-15 STAR (10868 Pte. E. Butler, Wilts. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (10868 Pte. E. Butler, Wilts. R.), together with related MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Ernest Butler), and Buckingham Palace memorial scroll, generally extremely fine (4)
£300-350
Ernest Butler, who was born in Oxford and a native of Headington, Oxfordshire, enlisted in the Wiltshire Regiment in Marylebone, London, and was first embarked for France in mid-December 1914, where he joined the 5th Battalion, part of 40th Brigade, 13 (Western) Division.
In June 1915, the Battalion was embarked for service in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, landing at ‘V’ Beach on 16 July and thence moving up to trenches around Twelve Tree Copse. Then in the following month, having moved to Anzac Cove, the Battalion went into action at Chunuk Bair on the 10th, advancing up the hill in support of the 6th Battalion, Leinster Regiment - three Companies were caught out in the open and all but annihilated, regimental records stating that ‘more than half of the officers and men were never seen again’.
Embarked for Mudros in January 1916, and having seen further action and suffered more casualties in the interim, the Battalion was next ordered to Mesopotamia in support of the ill-fated relief of Kut operations, and it was during the course of these that Butler was killed in action on 9 April 1916, when his unit became bogged down in marshland during the advance on Sannaiyat - blinded by Turkish starlights and subjected to heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, the Wiltshires lost 23 officers and men, including their C.O., in addition to 163 wounded and another 42 missing.
Butler, who was 20 years of age, is buried in the Amara War cemetery; sold with an original portrait photograph in uniform, together with original Infantry Record Office forwarding letter for his 1914-15 Star, dated 5 May 1920, and some with related research.
1028
Three: Corporal W. L. Gutch, Royal Garrison Artillery, formerly a 2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 1914-15 STAR (2 Lieut., Worc. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (120713 Cpl., R.A.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140
Walter Lionel Gutch was born on 15 March 1890 and was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford. At the time of the Great War he was living at The Haze, Mappleborough, Nr. Redditch. Granted a commission in the 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 November 1915 and was posted to the 10th Battalion. There he was found to be both physically and mentally unfit to hold a commission - being highly strung and nervous and it was recommended that he be sent home and allowed to resign his commission. This he did in September 1916 (London Gazette 19 September 1916). The same month he enlisted in to the Royal Garrison Artillery and served once more in France, May 1917-April 1918. In September 1918 he was transferred to the Labour Corps and then with the 91st Prisoner-of-War Company until demobilised in 1919. With copied m.i.c. and a quantity of service papers and reports re his suitability as an officer. An interesting record.
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